ABSTRACT
NOTWITHSTANDING the relation I have given of the disappointment of my friend, from the harsh character of his West Indian damsel, I do not mean to infer from thence, that all the women of that country in superior life are without tenderness. – But it is astonishing how habit influences the human character, and how little impression is made on our feelings by objects to which we are from our infancy or early youth accustomed: – this is observable in every country – even in England, that land, the inhabitants of which pique themselves, and not without reason, on being distinguished for the most liberal humanity among the nations of the civilised world.
